I have an RPG campaign currently set in Indianapolis. Oh, my players are in for a surprise, especially as one of them is practically the Platonic Ideal of the Privileged White Middle Class Male who believes that The Police Are Here To Help And Solve Crimes.

I’ve long fantasized about some sort of isopleth map of us police departments showing relative levels of garden variety corruption… this looks like a more useful tool, in that it gives the plebes some kind of political leverage to try to lobby our guardians.

Baltimore’s current Police Chief is, at least, giving some lip service to cleaning up the department. At the very least, the murder rate for 2016 does not appear to have the homicidal rage of record-breaking-year 2015. I’m going to send them a link to this project and inquire as to their thoughts on the matter. I don’t have high expectations.